Kentucky’s Steiner sets record in NCAA 200 win

EUGENE, Ore. — Kentucky junior Abby Steiner set a collegiate file within the 200 meters on the NCAA monitor and area championships on a soggy Saturday at Hayward Area.

Steiner was centered till the end, when she raised her arms and smiled broadly. Her time of 21.80 seconds bested LSU sophomore Favour Ofili’s file of 21.96 set this yr. Ofili was second behind Steiner.

“We simply took what’s occurred this entire season as studying experiences. Each race is a chance to be taught from it and repair sure elements of my 200. So I believe all of it got here collectively on the proper second,” mentioned Steiner, who additionally had the very best time on the planet this season.

Julien Alfred of Texas gained the 100, ending in 11.014 seconds and narrowly holding off Oregon’s Kemba Nelson in 11.020. Alfred set the collegiate file within the 60 earlier this yr.

Florida gained the ladies’s crew title with 54 factors, a day after the Gators claimed the lads’s championship. Florida’s ladies additionally gained the NCAA indoor crew title.

Gators sophomore Talitha Diggs, daughter of four-time Olympian Joetta Clark Diggs, gained the 400 in a private greatest 49.99.

BYU’s Kristie Schoffield additionally ran a personal-best 2:01.09 within the 800, elevating her arms to her mouth in shock when she noticed her time. She postponed a tv interview to go hug her mom within the stands.

Ole Miss sophomore Sintayehu Vissa gained the 1,500 in 4:09.42. BYU senior Courtney Wayment constructed an enormous lead and gained the steeplechase in 9:16 flat, a brand new school and meet file.

“The plan was to depend on my health after which all of the issues that I’ve completed to get to this second.” mentioned Wayment, who shaved eight seconds off the school file. “If anybody goes to return with me, then I am going to simply put my foot on the gasoline a bit bit extra.”

LSU’s Alia Armstrong was the primary to hit the primary hurdle and went on to win the 100 hurdles in 12.57, holding off a late surge from USC’s Jasmine Jones. Britton Wilson of Arkansas gained the 400 hurdles in 53.86.

North Carolina State’s Katelyn Tuohy defended her title within the 5,000, profitable in 15:18.39.

“My final 100 meters was so laborious, I used to be virtually crawling it in,” Tuohy mentioned. “However I used to be lucky sufficient to have a sufficiently big hole earlier than then so I used to be capable of maintain on.”

Texas gained the 400 relay in 42.42 and Kentucky gained the 1,600 relay in 3:22.55.